On Saturday, December 30, 2017 08:59:40 Chris Paulson-Ellis via Digitalmars- d-learn wrote: > On Friday, 29 December 2017 at 22:08:59 UTC, vit wrote: > > n = Nullable!Object.init; > > assert(n.isNull == true); > > > > [...] > > more: > > https://forum.dlang.org/thread/jrdedmxnycbqzcpre...@forum.dlang.org?page > > =1 > Thanks. > > No-one in the linked thread seemed to know why .destroy is used > in nullify. Looking at the commit history it used to be .clear, > but maybe that did the same thing, I don't know.
destroy used to be called clear (e.g. that's what TDPL calls it), but it was renamed, because it was too easily confused with clearing a container and tended to be misused. - Jonathan M Davis
